Clear Creek Food Cooperative

Hello friends,

Tomorrow, June 12th, is the opening day of our local farmer’s market! The market is held in the parking lot just east of the library, between 6th and 7th streets. If the array of local produce in our cooler is any indication of what you may find, it should be a great showing of late Spring offerings. David Reed, who has kept us supplied with wonderful greens all Winter and Spring will be there with his lettuce, swiss chard, juicy carrots, beets and much more. Salem Road Farms products will be available at the co-op. Their potted herbs, tomatoes, and pepper plants are available through the early part of the week if you have been waiting to start your own home gardens. Jennifer Walters, of ‘The Food Dude’s Farm’, has agreed to keep us stocked with her produce through the Summer weeks if David sells out at the markets on Saturdays.

Jennifer is also our new supplier for eggs. Her eggs are even more local than our previous supplier. (Williamsberg is less than 15 miles away.) Her eggs are from her free range, well treated chickens. They are chemical free and enjoy the local country life. The eggs are delivered twice a week, if need be, and cost you less than our previous eggs did.

Kent and Dori Baxter of Abundant Acres, who were the focus of a great front page spread in last Sunday’s paper, are keeping our freezer stocked with whole chickens. They are practicing ethical farming in Williamsberg as well.

We will be celebrating the kick off of the market at the co-op with storytelling by owner/member Jennie Kiffmeyer, at 12:30 pm. Jennie is a librarian at Lilly Library; and very excited to begin a storytelling series that will grow to include stories for adults later in the year. The co-op will be arranging weekly events at the market throughout June and July. The Cope Environmental Center will bring us a children’s program next Saturday, and ‘Soul Marrow Transplant’ will provide local music on the 26th. (Stop into the Co-op for more details on these events or the July programming) If you have ideas for programing to continue through the latter half of the market season, please call the co-op.

The preparations for market, and our bounty of local produce in the store have taken the limelight. We do have new products in the bulk and grocery sections, and will have more ‘clean’ sunscreen by Tuesday. We are happy to be providing families with care-free Summer fun. If weather permits picnics and cookouts we have the veggie dogs and burgers covered, as well as the grass fed patties. You will find the high fructose free ketchup, mustard and relish to top it off, as you pile it up on a biodegradable plate!

See you at the market, and then at the Co-op for storytelling at 12:30,
Kiersten Aubre-Howard